The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-07-28
IN TARHEELrA.
Persons and Things all Over the O
NORTH.

North State.
Mrs Theodore f. Davidson, of Asheville,
is dead
A cotton factory is to be built at Sanford,
Moore comfy.
Gastonia is to have a bank ready for bus
mess by August LIST.
In Sampson county there is large farm
set ont in pecan trees.
North Carolina sent 12O, 1000 men to the
war. She had 10000 dead.
over ], 5000 porpoises have been caught
at Beaufort this summer.
Durham is to have street car line run
out to the suburbs of the city.
The Wadesboro Inteilioencer says laziness
is the prime cause of hard times"
The Salisbury Watchman thinks North
Carolina has the best newspapers in the
country.
100000 melons have passed through
Charlotte on their way to Northern markets
since the season opened.
Charlotte has built three blocks of the
Tyron st. Extension of the street railway
in four days.
The white people of North Carolina
want the whipping post re-established for
punishment of small offences
Will Crow, the negro who shot into the
pay train on the Carolina Central, on June
11th, is jaile1 at Monroe.
The suit against the Water Works Co. at
Durham, brought by the Commissioners of
tn e town, has been withdrawn.
The Craftsman, removed from Charlotte
to Greensboro will issue its next number on
Friday. 1t represents the K of l..
Collector Craige has now only two spe-
eial deputies in the new 9Th district. There
were eight in the old 9th.
Brother Burkehead, of the Durham To-
bacco Plant, is to-be the orator at the press
association next year. He is a fine speak
er.
The Charlotte Chronicle favors the build
| to pass through the counties of ALTERNATE,
Montgomery, Moore and Harnett.
The engineers of the Durham and Lynch
burg railroad have completed their survey
| to Durham. Another line win be surveyed,
| before the directors will locate the route.
A single manufacturing enterprise at
Goldsboro has made $4,000 clear in the
past twelve months, and yet there be those
who go West to make fortunes.
Mr.. A. A. Crowell, a large lumber dealer
of Charlotte, has made contract to supply
the Cs road, with 100000 feet of lumber
| to be used in the construction of bridges
| and trestles.
Capt. o. r. Smith, of durham is raising
money to erect a confederate monument on
the spot where Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
surrendered. He has pledges to the amount
| of $4,000.
Mai. Dowd is dissatisfied with the status
| of Internal Revenue matters and has writ
| ten President Cleveland letter claiming
vindication. He says he was dismissed
| without cause.
| At the Russell mine, adjoining the Appa
lachian, they are about ready with their adj
ditional ten stamps, and it is reported that
lately they struck very rich deposit OF
ore on the Riggin Hill lode.
Cor. Dan Valley Echo. The factories: on
Deep river, in Randolph county, furnished
employment and good wages to many hun
dreds of hands, and these have not felt any
hard times. Regular work, good houses
with good gardens attached, they seem to
have plenty and are happy. There are
three factories al Randleman, which turn
out daily not less than thirty os forty thou.
sand aards of plaids.
Sundays Charlotte Chronicle reports gu ite
bit of romance. A few days ago Misi
Ann A. Kuernann of Berlin, Germany ar
rived in Charlotte. Years ago, in the Faith
erland she had given her heart to a Ger
man lad, who shortly afterward went to
America. He finally established himself al
Charlotte and sent for his sweetheart Shs
made the trip in Is days. The German
lad and lassie are soon to be made one.
The Charlotte Chronicle says: Yesterda,
j. 7. Cramer, manager Of the Genesee mine
again made his appearance at the mint and
deposited nearly twenty-three thousand dol
lars ($23, 00o) of beautifully reterted gold
made from ,4S5 tons of ore ia twenty-five
working days, at the actual expense Of onl
$2.910.15, leaving fraction over twent
thousand dollars clear profit. This show.
in the first place, the richness of the gol
mines and what well-directed enterpris
, and capital can do. The vein at the Gen
esee is about twenty feet thick, and NOR
ore of this quality is in sight than can
milled in years time. This makes a tots
of 800 realized in 4e working days &
: the Genesee.